Poll: What is your primary development system? Mac, PC, Linux, Other

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Post by thornjm » Sat, Apr 02, 2011, 3:10 AM UTC

Inspired by this comment[0] and the associated thread[1]. I would love to see what the distribution of development systems is on Hacker News.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2398781 [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2398618

Re: Poll: What is your primary development system? Mac, PC, Linux, Other

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Post by mindcrime » Sat, Apr 02, 2011, 3:22 AM UTC

Primary dev box: Fedora Linux on a Toshiba laptop. Miscellaneous dev/experiment boxes: Various flavors of Linux (CentOS, Fedora) on a mishmash of PC hardware; and EC2 instances when needed, or just for playing around with Hadoop.

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Post by hector_ka » Sat, Apr 02, 2011, 3:26 AM UTC

Primary dev system is a Windows 7 laptop because i bought it like that.Secondary system is an Ubuntu machine. And the third is an embedded system with Debian.

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Post by watmough » Sat, Apr 02, 2011, 3:29 AM UTC

iMac White 20". Oldie but a goodie. However, the LCD is starting to decay somewhat, with lines and smudges internally, and 3 Gigs ram is getting a bit tight.

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#5

Post by spooneybarger » Sat, Apr 02, 2011, 3:34 AM UTC

i cast 2 votes as i have two machines, one linux, one mac.

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#6

Post by shiftb » Sat, Apr 02, 2011, 4:13 AM UTC

I use my MacBook Pro 15" as my main development system. I have virtual machines setup for some projects usually using Ubuntu.

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Post by alex3t » Sat, Apr 02, 2011, 4:13 AM UTC

4 years ago worked on Windows, when tried Ubuntu and after that Mac, I never return back. I cant understand how LAMP or Rails developers working on win machines, I'v 2 XP running computers at home and using them only for gaming(very rare)

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Post by beej71 » Sat, Apr 02, 2011, 4:13 AM UTC

Arch Linux on a quadcore with FVWM is my machine of choice. VirtualBox for XP and Win7, but that's just for web testing, and for using my old copy of Adobe CS3 when needed.

Secondarily, I have an Arch netbook I use on the run (also for video skype). The lid switch works, even.

And lastly, a MacBook Pro that gets used for iOS dev.

Re: Poll: What is your primary development system? Mac, PC, Linux, Other

#9

Post by dman » Sat, Apr 02, 2011, 4:20 AM UTC

Debian with gnome and devilspie

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#10

Post by bitwise » Sat, Apr 02, 2011, 4:24 AM UTC

Ubuntu 10.10 x64 Core i7 2600K 16GB DDR3